My friend painting.

Posted on December 13, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art group, Cartridge paper, craft group, Drawing, effort, Life, Parkinsons, SketchingLeave a comment

Quick sketch, crafty group, I wasn’t well so just did this. Pencil on cartridge paper. I think I still have my skill in drawing but Parkinsons makes it harder. I still hope to get better medication and reduce the dopamine breaking down in my brain. I love art and hate the way this disease is making me “stick”, or shaking uncontrollably.

I’m trying hard to keep going, I do not enjoy how things are. But I realise my life is a lot better than some peoples lives. I’m lucky to live in a country with a universal health service. My eternal gratitude goes to the NHS., without which I would be stuffed!

Painting update

Posted on April 26, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Art group, Imagination, Life, Painting, Seascape, Work in progress2 Comments

I’m still working on this. I tried to sort out the horizon line as it was wobbly. I think that the land in the background is too dark. I want to try and resolve the colours and waves on the sea…. Is it too light or dark….

This is from my imagination but I might try and find something that is similar. Or I could turn it into a more abstract image?

Trying to work at art…

Posted on March 19, 2025March 19, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art group, company, Crochet, Drawing, Knitting, Mental health, Paintings, Sketching, Writing1 Comment

There is a new community project nearby and I went up yesterday to have a chat and try and feel a bit more engaged with people. Various things are happening including knitting and crochet, crafts, painting, and writing. It got me out of the house and helped save money on heating. While I was there I did a sketch of a couple of the attendees.

They called me their resident artist which I thought was rather sweet, although there are lots of other people creating artwork there, so it’d not really an accolade I should accept. But it is giving me the opportunity to maintain my skills. I don’t shake as much when I concentrate.

Today was different, I went to my group meeting for my mental health, it’s another craft group, but after I’d had a bit of breakfast I felt really icky, I ended up coming home early, mostly feeling overwhelmed and tired now. But I must try and continue with art, it’s really the only thing that keeps me going.

Palm tree (artificial)

Posted on February 26, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art group, artificial, Beach, cardboard leaves, Cold, February, Freezing, palm trees, theatrical props2 Comments

Well pretend. I was sitting in a freezing warehouse where an art group meets and it struck me that their theatrical group had constructed these trees for one production or another. About three meters high, they must have taken some building. The green leaves spread out as a canopy above visitors heads. It made me think of warm sand and gently lapping waves. Or benches and tables laden with cool fruit juices and melon, papaya or mango. That helped me feel a little warmer despite the cold of a freezing February evening.

Pumpkin time

Posted on October 23, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Art group, Food, food festival, Halloween, Painting, Pumpkin6 Comments

Decided to paint a pumpkin today. Acrylic on canvas. It’s for a food festival that’s coming up, our art group is doing pictures of vegetables and fruit to illustrate the theme

This took about 2 hours to paint. It’s a little bigger than A4. It’s sort of a mixture of halloween and nature.

Apple painting. Based on a digital drawing.

Posted on October 9, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art group, based on digital drawing, Fine Art, metallic paints, Painting, Shiny6 Comments

Picked up some paints today including metallic. Some of a group I’m in are doing pictures for a food festival and so I thought I’d join in. Acrylic on canvas. I think I made the apple look shiny, based on a previous digital drawing.

2004 drawing

Posted on March 31, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2004, Art, Art group, Drawing, Facebook memories, Five years ago, Life, Pencil, Time2 Comments

Facebook Memory

Sometimes things just pop up on my status and I don’t remember when I drew them. In this case the memory was from five years ago, but the comment said I drew it in 2004. I think that’s right because I wasn’t doing many pencil drawings a few years ago. I think this was from a monthly drawing group. Friends met up at a pub and we would draw each other or customers. I have the Sketchbook somewhere in the house. One of a miriad of them.

Life drawing

Posted on October 15, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Art group, Black and white drawing, Black ink, Drawing, Friends, Life, Orme Art group, Sketching, SleepLeave a comment

Today, after a very bad night’s sleep, I got up and decided to go to the Orme Art Group today. We had booked a life model to sit for us and I didn’t want to miss it. I had bought new ink pens and black sharpie pens to use in my sketchbook. This drawing took a couple of hours, I wanted to capture the patterns on her skirt and scarf and the autumn leaves outside the window. I think this went well and I’m pleased with it. Going out and talking to the friends in the group really helped.

Art workshops

Posted on August 24, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Art group, B arts, Drama, Fun, Hartshill, Life, mask making, puppetry, WorkshopsLeave a comment

Today I went to some art workshops and learned a bit more about drama, mask making, puppetry, animation and making dioramas. From nine till five. The final section was to create boxes and make tiny landscapes inside them. Mine and a fellow artist created a swimming pool party, with a pool with gold edging, and columns. Lilos, deck chairs and cocktail umbrellas as sun parasols. We even added a jacuzzi!

Our challenge

Posted on November 17, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Art group, Bonnard, Collaboration, Copied, Joined, Life, Numbered, Oil on canvas, SquaresLeave a comment

Painting by Bonnard. The art group I’m in are taking squares from this image and producing copies to be linked back together. I think the plan is to get it finished by the end of December. Plans are also being discussed to collaborate over a Christmas card. It’s good to be doing this despite being in lockdown again. At least we get to share artwork even if we don’t physically meet.

I think this is the third or fourth one we have done. I’ve already completed square 2 but I’m doing square 6 as well. I’m going to try and get it done soon.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Art group